Iwona Schymalla's guest is Adam Boruch, MD, a family medicine specialist and co-chair of the coordinated care section of the Polish Society of Family Medicine.
Teva Pharmaceuticals Poland will have a new CEO - Ewa Królikowska, previously commercial director of RX and vice president of distribution, will take over the position in April 2024. She will lead the commercial team of the company, which is a global leader in the pharmaceutical market and one of...
The drug program in operation in Poland for patients with retinal diseases (B.70) is world-class, experts agree. Since January, it has been reimbursing pharizymab, a bispecific antibody with high efficacy, administered by injections into the eye up to once every four months. Ophthalmologists...
Interview with Dr. Janusz Krupa, president of the Institute for Conscious Man, conducted during the Third Congress on Women's Health.
- There is a lot of talk about strengthening and developing pharmaceutical care. This is an element that would allow patients and clients closer access to health care services. A very important step forward is the introduction of public financing for vaccinations in pharmacies. However, this tool...
Rajmund Miller, MP for the Civic Coalition, deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Health Committee, has died at the age of 69. The death was announced by MP Bartosz Arlukowicz.
President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and art.
The Council of Ministers adopted a resolution on adopting a timetable for the implementation of the National Oncology Strategy for 2024, submitted by the Minister of Health.
Fifteen expert recommendations, the implementation of which will help implement the "One Health - One Health" policy, were presented to the Senate on Monday. This is the output and summary of the 5th "Health of the Poles" Congress, which was held in November.
Elements of health literacy will be included in the new core curriculum for the subject of family education, which will take effect at the start of the 2025/2026 school year, one of the messages heard by the Permanent Subcommittee on Public Health last week.
Litigation costs higher than the amount of compensation awarded for violation of patient rights. What was the case about?
Psychiatric doctors are not allowed to issue prescriptions for free drugs. The environment considers this a lack of trust and another manifestation of discrimination against psychiatry. This is because it is not clear for what reasons prescriptions for free medicines for mental disorders can be...
The Minister of Health, in a special announcement, informs that in connection with the new rules for issuing and carrying out the so-called annual prescriptions, which were introduced by the Act of August 17, 2023 on amending the Act on Reimbursement of Medicines, Foodstuffs for Special...
- We have a shortage of doctors, we're talking about 3.4 billion minor ailments being treated across Europe each year. If everyone who struggles with such a thing wanted to go for a medical consultation, we would have to have as many as 120,000 additional full-time positions for doctors. That's...
The Purple Day holiday has been celebrated since 2008 and still hardly anyone in Poland has heard of it. - Today I, Alicia from EPI-BOHATER, have this little dream that you join in raising awareness and spreading knowledge about epilepsy. Epilepsy affects our lives, but it doesn't define who we...
- We are fighting intensely for new therapies. Patient organizations, NGOs, doctors, medical professionals and regulators are focusing on this. Yet we fail to recognize that prevention is the most important part of all this. After all, it's better to get examined than treated," Prof. Beata...
As of April 1, 2024, patients with multiple sclerosis will have access to a new subcutaneous form of natalizumab therapy administration. According to Prof. Monika Adamczyk-Sowa, MD, head of the Department of Neurology in Zabrze at the Silesian Medical University in Katowice, and president of the...
Finansowanie wizyt patronażowych położnych.
Immunotherapy is entering very strongly into the treatment of many cancers, but especially in cervical cancer it has brought a breakthrough. Very good therapies are already registered for both first- and second-line treatment. Refunds, unfortunately, are not. This is a change expected and desired...
- I got the green light from the Prime Minister to develop a law banning disposable e-cigarettes, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna said at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office. The legislation is expected to be ready in April.
The well of the government is over, the frenzy was not - certainly not in health care. But let's agree, this caesura is completely artificial, what can be done for a hundred days, especially when most of this time has to be spent firstly on learning the system, secondly - on defusing the...
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